Healing the waters

In 2007, aquaculture businesses around Taihu Lake were devastated by an outbreak of algae that ruined the companies' reputations. Eight years later, the water quality has improved dramatically thanks to the use of a raft of organic cleaning measures, Cang Wei reports from Wuxi, Jiangsu province.

Sun Chu knew his dream was coming true when he watched flocks of wild ducks flying over his local lake in Jiangsu province in search of food.

Sun, manager of Yixing Aquaculture Co in Wuxi, Jiangsu, cherishes an ambition to restore the reputation of aquatic produce from Taihu Lake in markets across Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea, after sales plummeted in the wake of a massive outbreak of blue-green algae that devastated the flora and fauna, and led many customers to cancel their orders.